 Queen Elizabeth lays 2000 eggs a day |
| Queen Elizabeth lays 2000 eggs a day |
  Nov 4 2006, 01:46 PM
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http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?...mp;in_page_id=2
QUOTE Typos are the bane of a journalist's life. No matter how many times an article is spellchecked, proof-read and copy-edited, you'll still find that where you meant to write 'Tony Blair today defended his actions over the Iraq conflict,' you actually wrote 'Tongy Blirfish tiddle infendip crzwwldgdch spong spong someone get me out of here.' A round of applause, then, to Reuters, who manged to take the typo to new levels today, with an online article about the genetics of honey bees which claimed that Queen Elizabeth lays up to 2,000 eggs a day. Somehow, every time they meant to refer to the queen bee, the phrase 'Queen Elizabeth' was substituted instead. This led to the article informing us that 'Queen Elizabeth has 10 times the lifespan of workers and lays up to 2,000 eggs a day.' This was after we were told that 'With its highly evolved social structure of tens of thousands of worker bees commanded by Queen Elizabeth, the honey bee genome could also improve the search for genes linked to social behaviour.' Click on the image on the right for a screenshot (which half cuts off the second sentence, an error for which we apologise.) Tragically, Reuters have now taken the article offline. Here's the screenshot of the article: http://ordinary.blogs.com/.shared/image.ht...ed/queenbee.jpg This post has been edited by pebkac: Nov 4 2006, 01:48 PM -------------------- QUOTE (Spectatrix @ Oct 13 2006, 09:51 PM)  Holy shit, pebkac, you're awesome! "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Theodor Seuss Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde |
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Nov 4 2006, 01:53 PM
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 Do they ignore parts of reality? Group: Moderators Posts: 2,935 Joined: 23-February 06 From: South Overton!!! Member No.: 46 |
Does laying 2000 eggs per day make her a whore or the mother of british civilization?
-------------------- A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And--how many of us do know it? Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses... what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?
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Nov 4 2006, 03:06 PM
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sadly you don't realize how true this article actually is, i think some young whippersnapper that works for reuters is trying to get the frightening truth out...
queen elizabeth, like george bush, is reptilian alien in human form... reptiles lay eggs and have longer lifespans than humans kudos to the reuters guy actually trying to get the truth out |
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